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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Last year,
my business had the opportunity to partner with a charity and build a
community garden at our local youth center. In one day, the community came
together, young and old, to build raised beds and a fence to surround the
garden. Now the youth center includes gardening as an after-school activity for
the kids. They feed them after school snacks and meals out of the garden, and
send the extra produce home to their families.

Seeds of Grace (dreambigaskbold.org), the non-profit
that organized and fundraised for the event, has now built nine community
gardens in Washington State and Mexico. Each garden donates their produce to a
specific organization to help the community. Homeless shelters, food banks,
after school programs, and Meals on Wheels are a few of the recipients.

I sat down with Seeds of Grace
founder, Karole Johnson, to ask her how others can start building community
gardens where they live. She offered several helpful suggestions based on her
own experiences.

Saturday, May 28, 2016

After living through decades of
the War on Drugs, even though laws have changed in a majority of States, there
is still a stigma attached to one of the most healing herbs on the planet:
cannabis.

Cannabis was the most widely
prescribed medicine until the early 1900's, and has never caused one single
death. Before cannabis prohibition laws
were passed in 1937, the American Medical Association stated the world would be
denied a potent medicine if it were illegal.
However, when the Marijuana Tax Bill was up for a vote in Congress,
Representative Vinson blatantly lied by saying the AMA was behind the bill.

The AMA knew then what we are
rediscovering now. Cannabis is one of
the safest, most powerful healing herbs on the planet. It is known to help with a variety of
ailments, including and not limited to epilepsy, glaucoma, cancer, nausea,
stress, PTSD, migraines, anorexia, depression, arthritis, and chronic pain.

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

An
acupuncturist once told me that if I only ever take one supplement for the rest of my life, it should be reishi
mushrooms. For thousands of years, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has
hailed reishi as the "Mushroom of Immortality." We may be a few
thousand years behind here in the West, but modern science is finally starting
to catch up.